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Hi Jim,
I just wanted to thank you for the great newsletters. I emailed you awhile back and you encouraged me. Things are going great now. I have lost 135 lbs on raw and going strong. Now I enjoy helping others get there too! I went to Creative Health and had a blast, and saw the CHI booth at Raw Spirit too.
Be well,
Philip McCluskey
We have numerous testimonials from students who credit the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle with their recovery from:
PLEASE NOTE: that we offer no cures - we treat and heal no one. We simply share information, developed by Dr. Ann Wigmore, about how a Raw Living Foods Diet and Lifestyle can benefit everyone, and how the body often cures itself with a proper diet.
Things the Program Can Do for You:
Visit chiDiet.com for more information.
Hi Jim.
That was the most wonderful time. That was exactly what I discovered on hundreds of books, and CD’s I work through the last 4 years. Namely, detox, positive lifestyle and nutrition. I wanted to be sure I do everything right, that’s why I went there. I enjoyed the kitchen so much. All the people involved are sincere; money is not important to them.
I will promote this Institute to everyone. It’s far from home. It took me 30 hours traveling. Strangely, I had no jet stress or jetlag. Coming back same thing. I didn’t sleep on the planes, and after two days and 2 night awake, coming home, I slept 3 hours, got up and answered my emails, slept another hour got up and work all-day today, no problem.
I am 64 years, so this is really something. I attribute it all to the raw diet I have been following 100% the last two and a half months.
Today I have been asked to give a full day demonstration and lectures to some friends who have tried the raw diet, with an immediate improvement in their health. I am now preparing for it. It will be a busy one, having different sizes of sprouts, greens, and everything on one day, but I know the story now, looking forward to it.
Receiving the certificate was like getting a reward I worked so hard for the last four years. I was so overwhelmed with emotion that I could hardly talk, giving my speech. Reason being, I ask for the truth, I got it, my searching came to an end at the Creative Health Institute,
I now have to go and practice it. Live it. Promote it. Thanks again for your kindness and interest.
Robert Hayes
Pretoria, South Africa
Mr. Carey,
I couldn't agree more with your statement about those of us with too little experience and too much enthusiasm, and I'll tell you why. In late Dec. 2004 I spent two weeks at CHI, and about a month later my wife spent two weeks there. When I came home, I had it all figured out. I had stopped eating meat, which I am proud to say I still do not eat, and I just knew that I was a strict "raw fooder" forever.
A year and a half later, after consistently taking one step forward and two steps back, I realize that I must commit myself to this way of life for the long haul. It is just not something that we figure out in two weeks or even a year. While I have kept a diary since leaving CHI, when I read back over it, I see more that I don't know than I do know.
The one positive aspect of the whole experience, though - and it is a big one - is that where my wife was scheduled to have both knees replaced in Feb., 2005, she has been able to cancel that surgery. Today, while not totally pain or symptom free, she is able to work 35 to 40 hours a week, where before she could not be on her feet for more than 2 hours at a time.
No, we did not learn everything by coming to CHI, but it all started there, and a year after the exploration that started there, we are much the better for it.
Sincerely,
Bill Cowley
P.S. Tell Mr. Haughey that a revelation came to me the other day. That is, the reason that eating raw food is not the same as eating meat is that when we eat a living food, we do not kill the plant. Rather, it lives on as part of our living blood. It becomes part of our life force.
by Dr. James Carey, PhD (applied microcomputer technologies)
For 23 years I lived in Key West, Florida, and built several computer companies. In '97 I sold off the business, apartments, office building, house, and most of the stuff I'd accumulated. By January '99 I was 48 years old, free and financially liquid.
I took a year or so off and toured the United States, traveled 60,000 miles, first with an Airstream trailer, and later with a Bluebird motorcoach.
I also spent the time overcoming my addiction to cigarettes, something I'd been dependent upon since I was 14 years old.
By Spring of 2000 I was rested, collected, and tobacco-free. I'd relocated to rural Georgia, adopted a dog, and started building a house with my own hands. I also weighed 260 lbs. I'd been watching my weight creep up over the years, from my college weight of 165 to around 220 by '99.
I considered myself healthy because at 45 I could still shinny up a 30 ft. sailboat mast and repair the masthead while holding on with my legs. But a year of sitting behind the steering wheel substituting junk food and rich meals for the cigarettes I was trying to give up really put the weight on me. Now I was almost 50 and single-handedly building a house.
I considered myself to be in good shape, I was active and pain-free, but I sure was getting big.
 Jim at 260 lbs. |
 Jim at 170 lbs. |
So... January, 2001. New Year's Resolution - go on a diet. I read about health and nutrition, then put myself on a 1700 calorie-a-day vegetarian diet. I walked at least three miles a day, five times a week.
In four months I lost 20 lbs., bringing my weight down to 240. I kept counting calories in my little notebook, I kept walking 15 miles or more a week, and by Summer - still 240 lbs.!
I could not lose any more weight. Frustrating. If I went off my diet for a weekend in Savannah I'd gain 5 lbs. in two days, then take a week - or more - to get rid of it.
Back to the Internet for more research. I read about people who had been on one diet or another, but after initial improvements their health deteriorated and they were facing new health challenges because of the inadequacies of the dietary regime they'd adopted.
The deeper I dug, the more one program stood out. The Raw Living Foods lifestyle, taught by Dr. Ann Wigmore. It was old knowledge going back thousands of years, and she was the most famous of modern advocates. What impressed me most were:
1) Testimonies by people that have lived the lifestyle for 20, 30 and 40 years, and are thriving on it.
2) What does the founder look like today, or what did they die of? Dr. Ann died of smoke inhalation while fighting a fire, at 84. She was fit and healthy.
3) Other raw fooders have died as a result of sports accidents in their 80's and 90's, not of disease or medications. All maintained an active lifestyle up until their passing over.
4) Dr. Wigmore's Raw Living Foods Lifestyle combines raw living food, internal cleansing, body detoxification and plant-based supplementation. All of the elements of good health rolled into one.
5) There are hands-on training centers where one can go and experience the program for an extended period of time, and not just try to sort it out from books or weekend seminars.
6) Most hands-on centers are reasonably priced - I've paid as much for one night at a nice hotel for what they charge for a week's stay.
7) Dr. Ann Wigmore's program is educational, not "do this blindly because I say so." At the training centers they teach why the body isn't healthy, and what you can do about it. As an engineer and scientist, I appreciate this.
The more I looked at it, the more the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle stood out as being the program that would work for me - or for anyone!
Synchronicity also came into play. An old friend. When I mentioned Dr. Ann Wigmore's Raw Living Foods program she told me that she'd studied with Dr. Ann at Hippocrates Institute in Boston, and credited the lifestyle with changing her life.
August of '01 found me at Creative Health Institute, near Union City, Michigan. On a trip to visit family I stopped in for a three-day visit. I was so impressed with the personal experiences of the graduating students that I went back to Georgia, closed up the farm, and returned to Michigan to attend the two-week program. I still weighed 240 lbs.
In my first two weeks at Creative Health I lost 20 lbs. I never went hungry, I never missed a meal, I never counted a calorie. Indeed, I usually had seconds.
At the end of the first month I was down to 210 lbs. When I headed back for Georgia for Christmas I weighed 200 lbs. I'd lost 40 lbs. without even working at it!
Why did the program work so dramatically for me?
I was toxic. Not only did the organic, unprocessed food that Creative Health served reduce and eliminate the toxins in my body, Dr. Ann's program helped my body eliminate toxins that I'd been accumulating all of my life.
By eating processed foods, I'd been putting toxins into my body faster than my body could remove them. I learned that my body was storing these toxins in fat cells in order to protect me. Once I eliminated the toxins I was ingesting, my body was able to process the backlogged accumulation and dispose of it.
I also learned that I had a large amount of impacted fecal matter. Most people do. Enemas cleared out this backlog.
From '01 to '05 I spent three to six months of the year at Creative Health, helping out as a volunteer as I helped myself get healthier. I weigh 170 lbs. now.
The other reason I kept returning to Creative Health was the good feelings I felt when I saw others overcome their health challenges. I've seen people heal diabetes, obesity, arthritis, colitis, after-effects of chemotherapy, breast cancer, hepatitis, heavy metal poisoning, asthma, wounds that wouldn't heal, PMS, migraine headaches... all forms of health challenges.
I've seen people stop smoking, painlessly, in just a few days. They didn't even notice that they'd quit. Wish I knew that back in '99.
I've watched people perk up, heal, and get happy. Like Chantel from Zimbabwe. She came to Creative Health with rheumatoid arthritis, which she'd had since she was 16. She was 26. Upon graduation from the two-week program Chantel said, "I stopped taking my medication after I was here three days. I've not had any pain in more than a week."
With tears streaming down her cheeks, she added, "This is the best I have felt since I was 15 years old."
Some time later Chantel sent me an email: "While I am only 75% raw after these two years, I am not taking medication, and my pain has not returned. I am happy to tell you that I am now married and three months pregnant. Your program made this possible. Thank you, thank you, thank you."
What do raw living foods do for me?
Helped me lose over 70 lbs.,
Gave me an energy level that's like being 25 again (I even took up skydiving - at 52!).
Instead of sleeping 8-10 hours a night, I wake totally refreshed after only 4-6 hours of sleep.
My bowels are regular and move easily.
I'm happier - all the time. I have a more positive outlook on life. People say I "glow," and I smile all the time.
My taste buds have changed, and my cravings for snacks, sweets and caffeine have disappeared.
Most of all, I find my life more satisfying and rewarding than it's ever been before.
I try to help Creative Health in their mission. I've installed computers and a network, rewrote the website, taught classes, mowed the lawn, started a newsletter, served as Program Director, done public speaking, fixed toilets, painted, produced videos, answered the phones, stuffed envelopes, and told my story on TV and radio
When I was answering the phone at Creative Health I repeatedly heard people say, either:
For those reasons I created the Home Study Program. From a file cabinet with over three decades of research studies and student materials, and two decades worth of videotape, I spent my winters assembling the most comprehensive overview of the program I could.
I now administer the Raw Living Foods Home Study Program in order to help those who:
I'm finding it a great way to spend my retirement, and the second half of my life!
Jim Carey
Midville, Georgia
December, 2007
Steven and friends at CHI,
Thank You so much for sending out the video of our class skit! I was so surprised and delighted to get it in the mail.
I truly had a magical and unforgettable time at CHI. I really miss my daily walks and the beautiful natural sights I got to experience every day. Not to mention having delicious meals prepared for me at regular times!
I've been doing well with the raw foods after having some setbacks at first. Now I'm just enjoying this new way of eating and understanding food. Thank you again for the intense experience which definitely changed my life.
Warm regards,
Nicki D'Amico
August 2005
I've thought so much about you all and about my three weeks there and all I learned. It's been hard, back in the real world, but I've made some important changes, and I'm proud of that. Breakfast is always fruit, and I make sure that I always have a big salad at lunch and dinner. I'm keeping up with the walking, too.
There is NO WAY NOT TO SPEAD THE WORD about this miraculous program. Everybody has remarked on how much healthier I look, and they are full of questions. The more I tell them, the more they ask. My doctor asked me, "What's the name of this place? Where is it?"
I'm so glad I visited this amazing and endearing place, and to have met you! Your vibrant kitchen resides in the corner of my mind, constantly inspiring me with its sound of whirring and chopping and laughter.
Virginia Sanderson
September 11, 2000
What a wonderful experience it's been this past week at CHI. I have been battling a number of health challenges over the past few years, and my doctors have been continuously adding more and more prescriptions to the list of drugs I have been taking.
I had some vacation time coming, and decided that the best thing that I could do was to take a week to begin healing my body. I felt welcome the minute I walked into the door! I am leaving CHI today feeling better than I have in the past couple of years. I was even able to reduce and/or eliminate some of my medication. All of this in only 5 days!
I also want to thank the staff for their caring ways, and their willingness to share all that they know. Steven is extremely energetic and knowledgeable, and you can't help but pick up on the positive energy that he puts out.
Jeannie was so patient and accommodating as far as her teaching us "hands on" in the kitchen. Because of her dedication and willingness to go above and beyond, I feel confident that I can go home and easily prepare the delicious dishes that we mad together while I was here.
Once again, the entire staff was awesome!!!
If you're feeling sick
Or feeling blue
Come to CHI
They'll know what to do!
With my Sincerest Gratitude,
Rhonda Eggen
March 25, 2005
Hi James,
We want to congratulate you and we feel like you do that CHI is on a very good path to success and sustainability to continue its long tradition of healing people. We are so glad you are here in Michigan with us. Thank you for making the decision to stay and be here at CHI. We appreciate you and are glad and grateful you are where you are.
Blessings to you,
Beth and Christian Bechtel
Haslett, MI
June 7, 2004
Jim,
A lot of people don't know that Ann Wigmore was here or had much to do with Creative Health Institute.
In fact, when I tell people about her coming here for the first 13 years and harvesting the garden… they are all surprised.
Then I tell then we have the original Ann Wigmore room that we rent, and they get excited.
So, the hundred dollar question is - how to we place emphasis on this point?
Thanks,
Steven Gibb
Program Director, Creative Health Institute
June, 2005
http://www.creativehealthinstitute.us
I think you just did. - Jim
To all my friends or better put family at Creative Health, I would like to say Thank You for all you did for me during my last stay.
Thank you so much to Jeannie, Sara, and Gwen for helping me in my time of crisis and getting me to the hospital. You're life savers. The support there is wonderful and the love for the guests goes way beyond what most people could ever conceive.
I want to let you know, I will be leaving this weekend for Mexico. I plan to be gone 2 weeks. Will let you know what happens. I feel very confident that I will get rid of this trache tube in the near future. God brought me this far, he has much bigger plans for me. Once I get my feet back on the ground, I'll need some detoxifying.
I'll be in touch with you soon
-- Love Sheryl Krantz
July 14, 2004
Dear Don,
One should always tithe where one receives their inspiration and spiritual uplifting. I enjoyed my stay at Creative Health Institute and was very appreciative of the opportunity to listen to that heavenly music we all made on Sunday. Enclosed please find my check for $xxx
You seem to want to know that you will be assured a place in Heaven. Well, I want to let you know that you have my vote. Religious fever is not all that God measures us by. It is also by our works and deeds that we shall be known.
In creating CHI you have provided a great healing that has a ripple effect, touching so many lives and erasing a multitude of your sins. God has blessed you with many gifts and talents. And to he who is given much, much is required. You have give much.
Thank you,
Billye J. Graham
Author of "From the Soil to your Soul."
www.chidiet.com/books.htm
by Donald O. Haughey, Founder, Creative Health Institute
For almost 30 years Creative Health has been all about reversing disease and establishing a new, healthier lifestyle. Those who come here go through a two-week body chemistry reordering, a reordering of the balances that afford health.
Long ago, after a lifetime of practicing wellness Hippocrates said, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” That was long before the poor exercise reality of riding millions of miles instead of walking thousands of miles made us a mobile but sedentary nation.
Now 40% of the population is not only overweight but actually obese. Medical practice is exploiting this with costly surgery, instead of simply insisting that patients change their eating habits. They tell patients to stop smoking to reverse lung cancer, don’t they?
At Creative Health we do not preach, we teach. And we practice wellness not only of the body but also of the Spirit. In the free will we are given by God we are in charge of both.
As long as we live expecting dis-ease we play right into the hands of exploitive medicine.
On May 1, 1993 I began working at Creative Health Institute, most of the time as a volunteer. I was afforded the opportunity to regain my health here.
When I arrived I weighed 220 pounds, suffered from high blood pressure, had a pain in my right leg that caused me to walk with a limp, and had a craving for sweets.
My original intent was to stay for three months... After 9 months I had lost 60 pounds, my right leg no longer ached and I had weaned myself off of sweets except for fresh fruits.
Since being at Creative Health Institute I have witnessed what people usually call miracles. I have learned that the body is self-healing. We only need to give the body the nourishment it needs and it will heal itself.
I have also learned about the importance of enzymes. All cooked food depletes the body of its enzyme reserve. Enzymes are the foundation of all living cells, and the catalyst for all the metabolic processes that occur within the body.
Hiawatha L. Cromer, MSW
When I arrived here at CHI I was so ill that I was concerned
for my life. I was in a great deal of pain, my arm had deteriorated (the cuff
is gone and inoperable as well as my spine) and I'm also diabetic and have
neuropathy really bad. When I arrived I couldn't walk without the walker, or
bathe myself. I am now able to do both and within a week I was able to start
living on my own, which I never thought would again be possible. I believe
there is hope that I can get better, not just a little by that I can get well.
I'm 73 years old, and becoming young again.
-- Connie
Bill and I have just returned home today from what we have termed our greatest adventure in our 50 years of marriage.
We spent three months at Creative Health Institute in Union City, Michigan... this was a chance to do something very different and we knew we could do it... The small class was remarkable ... you become really good friends with those you spend a lot time with... a rural farm setting with clean air, long country walks, and healthy food.
It was an amazing experience, neither Bill nor I had big problems to work on, but at 82 and 83 we wanted to stay active and be able to live in our own home the rest of our lives. If you are fighting a disease we suggest you run, not walk, to Creative Health Institute.
... We had benefits we would never have guessed... The first thing we noticed was no more cramping in our legs, we credit that to changing our milk intake to sesame milk, which is high in calcium.
I quit taking my high-blood pressure medication, but had it checked every week just to make sure it didn't get out of control. It stays well within the range on the living-foods diet.
Bill had not been able to cross his left leg over his right until well into the program... The last count on his PSA prostate test was brought down from 7.3 to 3.7...
We both lost some weight... we definitely feel our overall general health is better - we have more stamina and well-being than before we went.
If you want to tune up your health, meet very interesting people, and experience a new way of eating that really works ... then consider going to the Creative Health Institute and learn what really works.
Sincerely,
Bill and Evah Phillips
Thanks Jim. You guys did a wonderful job when Victoria
came.
I just wanted to say thanks and you look great. I did not know your story 'till
I was down there to see Victoria.
Thanks again!!!
Lisa Nelson
To the Staff,
Thank You so much for all your hard work here at CHI. I know that it's not an easy thing to develop a servant's heart in the presence of what seems to be ingratitude, but you have risen to the occasion. Thank You for your patience with me. I appreciate so much having my meals made 3 times a day, my wheatgrass always there all your helpful friendly smiles. It gives me all the time I need to study, take classes, read pray. I'm able to heal grow because of you!
Thank You with all my heart!
Penny
August 2005
When I returned home I felt as if I had just participated in an opportunity of a lifetime. I was so excited. I also felt as though I was being released from a hospital. The changes that occurred while I was there were unbelievable. They not only were physical changes, but emotional ones as well. I proved to myself that I could endure the tough eating regimen which is practiced there. Since I have been sick seven years, I had to be very careful where and how I traveled.
The first week at the center was the most difficult for me physically. I was in so much pain. But it disappeared the second week. I did not notice some changes until I went home. When my husband met me at the rail station, he offered me a sprout sandwich. So I ate it. It took 2 hours to travel home, and when I entered our driveway, my sinuses were stuffed and draining. I realized that I had not had those symptoms during my stay in Michigan! I walked into our house into our family room and took off my socks. When I did, I noticed that the thick, rough, pitted scales and callouses all over the bottom of my feet were almost gone! I exclaimed to my husband to look at the bottom of my feet. Then I knew that something wonderful had occurred in my body while I was at the center! (I had previously been told by an oral surgeon that a sign of auto-intoxication was thick callouses on the bottom of the feet.)
I really appreciated all of the information that you taught us in class. I truly mean all that I am saying. I never heard such clear-cut explanations of the workings of the body. Even Mike Broderick, who had attended Gerson for six weeks, was super impressed. I appreciate all of the extra time you put into us. And all of the individualized attention. It was greatly needed. I was thankful for the time.
It is my desire to uplift you as to the work that you are doing. It is so worthwhile. The attitude of acceptance and trust that was afforded us on our stay there was so refreshing. It made me feel at home. So all that I can say is thank you. The center made a difference in my life. And I can not wait to go back again and go through the program.
I hope that this is a letter of encouragement to you. That is its intent. And it is sincere. Thanks for being there.
Sincerely,
Dianne Lahr
June 27, 1999
Thanks James and Carole,
Just wanted to let you know that life goes on after CHI. Getting accustomed to balancing (or should I say "juggling") work life and food prep. Using my home kitchen and experimenting a lot when I have free time. Of course, it is a challenge. I was spoiled at CHI.
Carole: you have been an inspiration in the kitchen and the heart.
James: you are an inspiring & energetic leader with your heart in the right place. Thanks to you both for all that you do to promote people to be responsible and educated for their own health.
As I follow this path I trust that it will lead me in a positive and joyful direction. Paul (my s/o) is liking most of this new diet and we are transitioning where we need to. He seems to be feeling better.
Appreciatively & with smiles,
Jackie Klein
September 26, 2004
PS: Hope all is unfolding perfectly in your world.................
Dear Jim,
Thank you for believing and encouraging me.
I've just come back from California where I had a great time with my older niece and her family and we all celebrated the first birthday of my younger niece who is 35 years younger than her half-sister.
Of course I had a Russian copy of "12 steps..." and wonderful materials from your e-mails.
I am not sure, but I hope that SOMETIMES it will help. I will mail the last one directly to my older niece (she just came back from the Netherland), I hope she will be able to convince her father to pay attention.
Thank you again very, very much.
My best regards
Sarah Shvetskaya
Attending the Creative Health Two-Week Detoxification and Rejuvenation Program is surely the best health assurance you can get as prevention and recovery from lifestyle-caused degenerative Dis-Eases - cancer, arthritis, diabetes and many others that you can learn to reverse with remarkable results in just two weeks of dietary change from the SAD (Standard American Diet).
In 1800 fully 92% of the American people lived on farms and practiced subsistence lifestyle. As they moved to the city diseases increased because processing and chemicals were added to our foods.
Now there is a Raw Fruit and Vegetable Revolution as we return to basics to save ourselves.
Creative Health Institute has taught the Dr. Ann Wigmore Living Foods Lifestyle program for 26 years. It was built in Hodunk after I visited the Wigmore Institute in Boston and accomplished full recovery. I regained a viable life after "modern medicine" told me that my condition was terminal -- before I was 44 years old. I felt strongly that I had to share this wonderful knowledge with others.
That was almost 27 years ago. Now I see miracles continually. I only call it a miracle when the person has been told they are terminal and they recover as I did - and now I see miracles continually.
Donald O. Haughey
Founder, Creative Health Institute
If you can't afford a residential program, there's a home study alternative for the Dr. Ann Wigmore lifestyle available at www.chidiet.com.
After several years of not being able to get pregnant, I was diagnosed with endometriosis in the spring of 1998. Hormonal medications were recommended which would be followed by hysterectomy.
I came to Creative Health Institute in June 1998 and went on the program. After three days of being on the program a remarkable thing happened; the severe menstrual cramps were gone.
When I had finished my three months stint I had lost thirty-five pounds, my energy level had increased, and I had a permanent smile on my face.
Five months after returning from Creative Health Institute I became pregnant with our first child!.
I am proud to say that on October 18, 1999 our daughter came into this world healthy, happy, and full of life.
Melissa McGlone Winkel
May 16, 2000
